Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
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If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
